Iron Mine Pass Prospects

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Clay, Manganese
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010352
MRDS ID D003962
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Mine Pass Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15692, 38.62802 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iron Mine Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
012W 025S 23,24 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Clay Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.15692, 38.62802

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Beaver Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE POTENTIAL OF THE PROPERTY IS SMALL, LESS THAN 100 TONS OF LOW GRADE IRON ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 88

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A FEW TONS OF ORE APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN SHIPPED ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.